Am most interested in deliciously high quality 2-channel audio (rather than in 12.1, 7.1 or even 5.1 HT - but might get a decent 3rd channel center speaker for DVDs; already have some mediocre rear surround spkrs in the ceiling)

Video should have HDMI In/Out. We get HD from Comcast, and some upconversion of SDTV from digital cable would be important (unless I can run that through my Oppo scaler?).

Price should be around $2-3K (eg Marantz AV8003?) rather than $4-6K, although would be happy with a high-end something used from Audiogon (Anthem AVM50 or D2? )